The Brodsky Center at PAFALiz Collins first developed her focus and influential career as a textile designer in the early aughts. This perspective remains at the center of her visual work, comprising her main concentration throughout the past two decades. In site-specific installations and individual textile paintings, Collins manipulates commissioned fabrics and responds to institutional and spatial surroundings to reconfigure the intimacy and social influence of aesthetic encounters, and investigate the impact of creative labor.
At the Brodsky Center, Collins created Genesis, an edition of nine handmade paper works, along with an edition of two unique variants, Fractured/Smoldering and Fractured/Portal. Genesis recreates the artist’s first generative concept of her ongoing exploration around deconstructing knitted fabrics. The artist wove flat and seed yarns into handmade cotton pulp and then cut them […]
